So might Wikipedia have been persuaded to stay put on GoDaddy by the registrar's late-to-the-party repudiation of its initial support for SOPA? I asked Wikipedia spokesman Jay Walsh and got this reply: "It's still going forward; not in any way reversed. We're preparing to communicate which provider we'll use (instead of GoDaddy) at this point. We should have more info next week."

And thus a potential rift in the anti-SOPA alliance is averted.

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